Teams & Riders Brothers in (crank) arms - Yates Discussion Thread

[RedheadDane]

It's a very Zubeldia/ninja/stealth kind of win.

Entirely too visible to be Zubeldia.

 

[Sciatic]

Agreed, I think Simon was missing something on Stage 17. Visma put 3 guys in the break that day. Why would you do that if not planned to serve as a launching pad for him to attack? Instead he showed no snap when others went up the road. Could have been difficulty recovering from Stage 16 effort. Or maybe that just his level?

That was a poor take I made: he definitely had a higher level!!

 

[theyoungest]

He certainly deserved a GT in his career. I just can't say this was the most memorable performance over the three weeks.
A GT winner with no stage wins is a no way for me.
And a Dirty Visma win also is a BIG no way.

It's a very Zubeldia/ninja/stealth kind of win.
Anyway big performance today and what else.
Congrats.

I'll keep eating my hat in anger.

This is such a weird way of looking at things, no he didn't win today's stage but clearly he could have. You have 5 minutes advantage on the finish line and still it isn't enough for some people.

I mean, haters gonna hate, but at some point you run out of reasons... I would think. I wasn't too impressed with Yates so far but clearly today he's proved us all wrong. I thought he could do better, and he did. It wasn't just Carapaz and Del Toro riding immensely stupidly, Yates was simply the strongest.

 

[Mako]

I do agree, with Pippo_San. To win a GT without winning a single stage... I do find it a bit "meh".
Yes, he was the best overall, but still atleast one stage win to sweeten the package. Well anyhow.

Impressive performance today.

 

[Red Rick]

Not winning a stage is a little sad yes. But the performance today was career defining.

 

[Sciatic]

I do agree, with Pippo_San. To win a GT without winning a single stage... I do find it a bit "meh".
Yes, he was the best overall, but still atleast one stage win to sweeten the package. Well anyhow.

Impressive performance today.

Well shoot, once Simon realized he wasn’t going to catch the stage leader he should have just soft-peddled and come in with the others, since winning a GT in dramatic fashion but lacking a stage win is so lowly.

 

[SafeBet]

Not winning a stage is a little sad yes. But the performance today was career defining.

Yes that's a stage we'll remember for a long time.

 

[Mako]

Well shoot, once Simon realized he wasn’t going to catch the stage leader he should have just soft-peddled and come in with the others, since winning a GT in dramatic fashion but lacking a stage win is so lowly.

How is that even remotely what I wrote?

He is a deserved winner, as they usually are in a 3 week GT.

Still a stage win to top it off would show some panache and style. But hey, it's only my opinion.

 

[theyoungest]

How is that even remotely what I wrote?

He is a deserved winner, as they usually are in a 3 week GT.

Still a stage win to top it off would show some panache and style. But hey, it's only my opinion.

He took 5 minutes today. Five minutes! If that isn't panache I don't know what is. It's not his fault there were two guys from the break still ahead of him.

 

[Red Rick]

Haven't seen a performance this amazing without the stage win since probably Contador on the Mortirolo?

 

[Sciatic]

How is that even remotely what I wrote?

He is a deserved winner, as they usually are in a 3 week GT.

Still a stage win to top it off would show some panache and style. But hey, it's only my opinion.

You saw the wink didn’t you?

 

[Mako]

You saw the wink didn’t you?

Didn't

 

[SHAD0W93]

Simon playing 5D chess trashing his team the other day about tactics to have this beauty stay hidden under the radar. Great win and peak in the third week.

 

[Blanco]

On his day, and on a very difficult climb, Simon Yates is still among the very best climbers of the world. These two clowns maybe wouldn't lost that much time if they rode all out, but they would still be out-climbed by Yates today. No one in this Giro field could've matched Yates today, not even Roglic.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Congratulations to Simon Philip Yates for winning Giro 25. Memorable performance and a Giro 2018 redemption. Team support stellar too so in the end it was the right thing to do, to call them out. A win that left at minimum one happy member of UAE team.

 

[Brullnux]

Congratulations to Simon Philip Yates for winning Giro 25. Memorable performance and a Giro 2018 redemption. Team support stellar too so in the end it was the right thing to do, to call them out. A win that left at minimum one happy member of UAE team.

Ayuso?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Congratulations to Simon Philip Yates for winning Giro 25. Memorable performance and a Giro 2018 redemption. Team support stellar too so in the end it was the right thing to do, to call them out. A win that left at minimum one happy member of UAE team.

Ayuso?

'I thought of giving up, but even though you're gone, you two were with me every step of the way on the climb.'

 

[Rockestar_33]

Loved it. As a Jayco fan I was heartbroken for him in 2018, love that he got his revenge.

 

[Skalman]

Great winner, great attitude, great redemption ride-almost unbelievable. Others actions doesn't diminish his ride today.

 

[Rackham]

'I thought of giving up, but even though you're gone, you two were with me every step of the way on the climb.'

It's not just about the win, it's about the friends made lost along the way.

 

[Roku]

Best climbing performance of his career at a moment when he was supposed to be transitioning to top domestique. I expected him to crack this weekend yet he came up with a memorable performance to take pink. This shows the difference in many ways between riding in a mid tier team and a top structure.

 

[Gigs_98]

It's such a beautiful mirror of 2018. In 2018 he rode with so much panache, constantly attacking and seemingly playing with the oposition whenever the road went uphill, until the cracks started to appear and a day later the disaster happened. When that happened Del Toro was a 14 y.o. school child, Carapaz was having his break through performance and Van Aert was yet to sign a World Tour contract. Seven years later he is an experienced veteran who is riding this entire race within himself, trying not to put a foot wrong and putting his entire focus on the climb that killed him all those years ago. And it works out better than even he could have dreamt. I never had a strong opinion on him, neither negative nor positive, but I was cheering for him so much on this stage. I cannot believe he actually pulled it off.

 

[Red Rick]

It's such a beautiful mirror of 2018. In 2018 he rode with so much panache, constantly attacking and seemingly playing with the oposition whenever the road went uphill, until the cracks started to appear and a day later the disaster happened. When that happened Del Toro was a 14 y.o. school child, Carapaz was having his break through performance and Van Aert was yet to sign a World Tour contract. Seven years later he is an experienced veteran who is riding this entire race within himself, trying not to put a foot wrong and putting his entire focus on the climb that killed him all those years ago. And it works out better than even he could have dreamt. I never had a strong opinion on him, neither negative nor positive, but I was cheering for him so much on this stage. I cannot believe he actually pulled it off.

That's 4 years in a row now the Giro winner resolves some major trauma in the final mountain stage

Yates: Lost the Giro on the same mythical climb 7 years earlier
Roglic: Lost the TdF on a penultimate day MTT 3 years earlier
Hindley: Lost the Giro on the final day 2 years before
Pogacar: Lost a race in 2023

 

[yaco]

Yates was actually dropped before they reached the bottom of the Finestre.

 

[Red Rick]

Yates was actually dropped before they reached the bottom of the Finestre.

No?

He dropped very quickly but he wasn't dropped before they even hit the climb.